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To optimize guide-dog robots, first listen to the visually impaired - EurekAlert


<p>AMHERST, Mass. &mdash; What features does a robotic guide dog need? Ask the blind, say the authors of an award-winning paper. Led by researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, a study identifying how to develop robot guide dogs with insights from guide dog users and trainers won a Best Paper Award at CHI 2024: Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), the leading venue for human-computer interaction research.</p>

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